Same position as you, never wireless. Just bought my Garmin Edge about a month ago, glad I did.
3 screeens, 7 functions each screeen. The more the smaller the readouts. So if you use 3 on one screen, much easier to read.
It allows me to set up one screen for flat ride, average, speed, time usual stuff. A second for climbing, elevation gain, % of the climb, current elevation level, speed, distance. Then a third for general stuff like time distance average temperature. Lots of choices.
Plus, came with two mounts so I can swap from my roadie to the MTB with no mount changes.
I paid about $250 for it but very happy. I tested the life of one charge and got 16 hours. I believe the difference of the lower models is battery life ( I could be wrong). But I've heard some complain that the battery life dies on a slow century (10 hours?).
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gulpxtreme, on Flickr